[Taxacom] Nomina nuda and genbank?

[Stephen Thorpe]

Very true Jim: taxonomists build their sand castles out of specimens, while bioinformaticians build them out of names ...

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft [jim.croft at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2009 12:01 p.m.
To: Roderic Page
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Nomina nuda and genbank?

but the real worry is that with all the focus on names, nomenclature
and IC*N the identification and the circumscription of the taxon
concept to which the organism in question belongs gets lost.

the name can only do so much.  sometime someone has to look at a
specimen and make or confirm a decision.

biodiversity starts with a live 'thing'. all else is abstraction
(warning: personal ideology alert!)...

jim

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Re "taxonomic names used in GenBank cannot be modified or updated",
> this is incorrect. GenBank can and does update names (for example frog
> names have been changed in recent years following the Frost el al.
> paper), and they will also merge/delete names. The real issue is that
> there's isn't an easy mechanism for the community to contribute to
> this process.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
> On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:36, Francisco Welter-Schultes wrote:
>
>> The taxonomic standard of GenBank is not very high. We know cases
>> where gene sequences were deposited under incorrect names because
>> species were misidentified, it was not possible to correct the names
>> afterwards. The taxonomic names used in GenBank cannot be
>> modified or updated, even if new generic or specific classifications
>> are unanimously accepted in the community. In such an environment
>> presence of nomina nuda cannot be regarded as a problem.
>>
>> Francisco
>>
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>>
>> University of Goettingen, Germany
>> www.animalbase.org
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